Achieve Gapless Playback on a Chromecast with Gear

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s neat that Google, with a $385 billion market cap, still fails to implement a basic feature like gapless music playback within their own product ecosystem, yet a tiny company like @_Treasurebox_ can solve the problem with a $3.99 OS X app. Chalk up another win for the little guy: Gear (a.k.a. G-Ear) for Google […]

Gapless Playback with Google Music on OS X

Reading Time: < 1 minute Problem The one galling failure of Google Play Music’s web app is the lack of support for gapless playback.  Other than that, it just about puts the final nail in iTunes’ coffin. Discussion iTunes is a mature product that has gone to great lengths to implement gapless playback perfectly. Solution G-Ear Player for OS X. […]

Raspberry Pi Time Machine Problems/Solutions

Reading Time: < 1 minute Problem After building a makeshift Time Capsule using Debian Linux and parts I had lying around — a Raspberry Pi and Thermaltake BlacX hard drive dock — there were numerous intermittent problems and ultimately misleading error messages like: The identity of the backup disk has changed The backup disk is not available Sparse bundle could […]